valentine's day rant.

today at work, i overheard a homely female employee voicing her hatred for Valentine's Day to another homely female employee and it got me thinking.

i think it's ridiculous whenever girls say they hate valentine's day because of the commercialization of the occasion. how it's nothing but a conspiracy that the card companies, chocolate factories, and teddy bear stuffers are all behind.

"I'm not gonna let them deceive me," they say. "I'm too smart to buy into that."

listen. all holidays are commercialized. unless you boycott every major holiday, why should anyone take your principles seriously? rarely do you ever hear a girl complain about Christmas - the most over-commercialized holiday.

embrace it. the odds are good that someday you'll eventually have a boyfriend on Valentine's Day and you'll want to go out, but he won't take you out, because youll be too afraid to admit that you want to be taken out. so be honest. get it off your chest. once and for all. you hate valentine's day because of all the acne years you spent alone in your room while all your attractive friends were holding hands at the mall.

so this Valentine's Day. I challenge you. all lonely and bitter single girls. when you put up your sad away message tonight.

just copy and paste this:

"alone again. on valentine's day. not because of the commercialization, but because im socially awkward and unappealing to the opposite sex. new episode of LOST tonight though. pretty excited about that."

really poor advertising.

not what you think they are.

i attended a men's game dinner at my church the other night. it's the one night when all the hunters bring in their recent killings for everyone to eat.

i'm not a hunter, but i enjoy eating.

so this is the new year.

i often get chastised for my current living situation. i dropped out of college (for reasons i can justify). i work full-time. i make decent money. i don't have any substantial bills. i'm happily single. i still live for free at home. and i still drive the same decrepit car i've been driving for the past 5 years. some would say im stuck in this situation. lacking any real goals or aspirations. others would say i am immature. not ready to be on my own. not ready to manage real responsibilities.

listen. all of these people couldn't be more wrong.

this would take too long to get into, but i can assure you. leaving zion was a smart decision that I probably should've made a semester earlier.

i hate going to my job everyday. it's not a bad job. i get paid well for hardly doing anything. but talking to people about passports is not my passion. and it is not my calling. yeah, i could move out and buy a nice car. one with a radio. but i have bigger aspirations than that. i can't help but feel sorrow for the people at my work who absolutely need that job in order to survive. as embarrassing as my car can be sometimes, i have no plans of making passports my life just to own a nicer one.

would it be nice having a girlfriend? yup. especially if she's good looking. but do i need one during this time? nope. and it certainly wouldn't be fair for her to have to ride in my car.

my job. this situation. is temporary.

2007 was a year of rejuvenation. getting myself to the place where i can go and do something that i'm passionate about. 2008 will most likely be a year of some important decision-making. Like what school to go to? Or what tattoo should i get on my neck?

Vote for Huckabee.

how a he/she applies for a passport.

today i had to give a he/she advice on how to apply for a passport.

he/she is leaving the country as a male.

after the final surgery in Bangkok, he/she plans to return as a female.

so he/she didn't know what sex to put on his/her application.

i advised him/her to use whatever sex is listed on his/her birth certificate.

he/she was born a male. as indicated by the unusually deep voice.

i concluded this conversation as i conclude every conversation i have with an applicant:

"Good Luck."

but never before did i dryheave afterwards.

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my iPhone came in the mail today.

(603) 343-6173

my deepest apologies.

i just want to say, real quick, that I havent been updating because we are in the process of moving [to Milton] and I currently have very limited access to the internet.

LOST.

I know it's cool to dislike things that are popular, but i dare you to watch the past 3 seasons of LOST and not declare it the most brilliant, mind-blowing show in the history of television.

i set up an appointment for the guy who played Jamal in Freedom Writers today.

a cool moment in a day filled with angry people who dont have their passports yet.